*Meeting 873*

*April 23, 2007*

Trey Haddad, President

Chris Garcia, Vice-President

Dave Gallaher, Treasurer

Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms

Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary

*Began 8:00, commenting that Aussies are just so darned nice*

*21 people attended*


We established a party jar


*Secretary's report*: the minutes of meeting 872 were accepted as 'pixel-stained technopeasants'


*Treasurer's report: at the April 2nd meeting we took in $11.75 in the regular jar & $3.25 in the party jar; at the April 9th meeting we took in $3.25 in the regular jar & $6.50 in the party jar & at the April 16th meeting we took in $6.00 in the regular jar & $6.25 in the party jar*


*VP reported there is a new 'Drink Tank' out in which he blathers and his next issue will be the Kurt Vonnegut issue & a new SFinSF will be out Wednesday*

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The President had nothing fannish to report and we said 'hi' to Joe, visiting us from another space entirely and he mentioned he has 2 tickets to the Giants vs the Mets game on April 8th*

*Announcements*

Cheryl announced that there were readings - John Scalzi at Borderlands on Thursday at 7pm and at Dark carnival on Friday at 5:30pm; plus Ellen Klages at Borderlands on Saturday at 3pm

Then Art asked if there were still shops that repaired TVs and if they picked up, as his 32" TV is feeling quite ill

Dave C announced that there is a new 'Cargo Cult' catalog out

Ken announced 'less than 24 hours to go' - before KTEH shows the next Dr Who episode & the next meeting of the Legion of Rasselon will be at the usual place this Friday at 7:30

Chris announced that Howeird's play, 'Jekyll and Hyde' starts Friday and runs through May 13th

[evil] Kevin announced that the rates for Costume Con 26 go up on May 1st and that their room block opens up at the Doubletree this Thursday - and they have banners that you can put on your site

Dave G announced that there will be 3 days of Bond films showing at the Castro over the Memorial Day weekend

*Reviews*:

[tall] Kevin reviewed Chicago and Aurora as unexpected, with good rail suirvice, there was snow, they saw a Cubs game and it was cold, they went to the Field Museum and saw some of it; then Cheryl follow-on'd that she went to a few readings and a Hugo Frog bar [with excellent fish] and saw the art institute and all in all was impressed by Chicago, except for the weather


Chris reviewed 'Hot Fuzz' as the 2nd funniest film he's seen this year - absolutely hilarious and rad and worth full price; then reviewed an opulent house wherein he saw 'Shaun of the Dead' and it was exceptionally awesome - given the surroundings; then Ken follow-on'd that 'Hot Fuzz' as a cop/buddy-movie send-up


Cheryl reviewed Monterey as they ate lots and otters are way too cute - and it was worth full price just for 1 otter


Harold reviewed 'Grindhouse' as a good job of recreating the ambiance - but there should have been an intermission and the trailers were wonderful - well written but too damned long; then he tiraded about the heresy of remaking a classic like 'Halloween' [then there were follow-on's that waxed philosophical]


Andy reviewed last week's Dr Who as a qualified fantastic - a hell of a lot of fun - and still worth stealing


Dave G reviewed the coast as he traversed it several times - he thought Norwescon was a nice little con ['little?' commented Spring] and worth full price, then reviewed the Bob Hope Marriott and the Creation grand Slam as somewhat reduced and he found the ads scattered around the hotel to be a bit disconcerting & said his last 2 weeks were 'busy'


Stellan reviewed a PC game, 'Command and Conquer 3' as very science fictional and that it has live-action cut-scenes [using recognizable actors], that there is a coherent plot that nicely hangs together and is beautiful - and worth full price - and is on sale at Target right now


[evil] Kevin reviewed 'Kinky Boots' as marvellous


We birthday auctioned off Cheryl for $27.00 to Kevin & birthday auctioned off Dave G for $22.00 to Spring; then auctioned off an audio book for $0.50; other books for $0.25, $0.25, $8.00, $1.00, $2.00 & a DVD for $3.00

*We adjourned at =* 9:51

*And the rumor of the week was* that = 'Today the Round Table on Moorpark, tomorrow the world'

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